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I understand if you don't want to spend time looking it up just because some dude on the internet asked. Maybe I can find it. Were direct sources posted on Mgoblog, or one of the Michigan newspapers (daily, det news, freep)?

I remember a lot of consternation at the time over Brandon's lack of advocacy for keeping Michigan and Ohio in the same division and playing at the end of the year, MDog's post being a good example. Heck, I even emailed Brandon at the time to voice my concerns. And obviously Brandon was a horrible AD for many reasons. I'm just wondering how much of the "moving the game outrage" was based in fact and not emotion. Does anyone have any actual articles/audio/video of Brandon's transgressions on this topic?

Coach Hand is right. This is a bull**** rule change. It takes away an exciting element of college football, and football in general. It changes the strategy in football and makes the game less interesting.

Lemme get this straight. The B1G just added a conference championship game, and everyone agreed to adding a game for a 4 team NCAA playoff. Plus everyteam with a pulse participates in a crappy bowl game, many of which are barely attended. But the NCAA needs to slow down the offenses, to limit the number of plays, to avoid "too many" hits. Riiiiiiiiight.

Part of the reason college football is great is because there are lots of different types of offenses, many of them up tempo. That trend even caught on in the NFL, at least with the Eagles. There is also a lot of variance in college. Kids are still growing and learning, coaches take more chances, seem to run more trick plays, etc. There is a wide variety of offensive schemes, many of which rely on strategy to cover up lack of raw talent. Like you said, less talented teams can upset the teams that have natural and dominant recruiting advantages. And that is exciting!